Iran’s Red Crescent Society Builds Makeshift Camp for Refugees on Syria-Lebanon Border
Pir Hossein Kolivand, who accompanied Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi during a trip to Lebanon and Syria this week, said the Lebanese refugees who enter Syria can be accommodated at the camp soon.
He said necessary data-x-items for living in the camp as well as a makeshift hospital have been provided by the Iranian Red Crescent Society.
The United Nations refugee chief says some 100,000 people have fled Lebanon to Syria amid relentless aerial attacks by the Israeli regime on Beirut and other parts of the country.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said last week that those fleeing included both Lebanese and Syrian nationals.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said that Damascus would prioritize assistance to the people of Lebanon fleeing Israel’s barbarism.
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He said that Syria has to “stand by our friends in Lebanon in all fields and in all sectors, without exception and hesitation.”
A wave of Israeli airstrikes across large parts of Lebanon have killed hundreds of people, including women and children, over the past few weeks.
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